So, 2020 has been off to an interesting start. The “OpenCon saga” pretty much crippled me professionally. I have spent the last 5 months in isolation mode to recover physically and emotionally from that. Thankfully, while this rather vicious and intentional attempt to harm me was quite successful, it also provided me with a brilliant […]
SOURCE UNESCO on 30 March hosted an online meeting of representatives of ministries in charge of science all over the world. Participants included 77 ministers, including governmental secretaries representing a total of 122 countries, as well as Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Sarah Anyang Agbor, African Union Commissioner for Human Resources, […]
To start off the week, I am delighted to share three new articles/preprints/perspectives about reforming various elements of scholarly communication/publishing/open science. Enjoy, and any feedback very much welcomed! A value proposition for Open Science Open Science has become commonly understood in terms of its practices. Open Access, Open Data, and Open Source software are all […]
I have never been in Open Science for the money. I was also never trained in marketing, which is why I have now made my latest book, The [R]evolution of Open Science, available online for free. In epub and pdf formats, as well as on Amazon still for less than $3 if you want a […]
Finally, a project that has been in the works for around 2 years is now online! What started just from a simple idea exploded into this project, and I am grateful to have worked with some beautiful minds on crafting this together. Here it is, “A tale of two ‘opens’: intersections between Free and Open […]
Open Science has always been pluralistic in its practices, values, and principles. While in some respects, there is strength in such diversity, it can also make strategic co-ordination inherently difficult. With this in mind, these are the five key things that I feel the “Open Science movement/community” could focus on in the future: Research evaluation […]
Recently, I published a book called “The [R]evolution in Open Science“, which is available on Amazon now for $3. While all of the chapters are already available online for free, they weren’t all indexed in one place for easier discovery. Well, now this post brings them all together! So, you don’t have to pay, or […]
Very happy that our article, Ten Hot Topics around Scholarly Publishing, was by FAR the most popular article published in Publications in 2019. Congratulations, and thanks, to all co-authors for helping to produce such a useful piece of work! The screenshot below is from the annual report from the journal. I hope it continues to […]
Just finished a first-draft on a new paper, “Standardising Peer Review in Paleontology journals.” Full project guidelines are available here. Feedback at this stage very much welcomed, as I have undoubtedly missed quite a bit! Here’s the introduction: “However ill-defined it may be, the peer-review process is still the gold standard that will continue to […]
Sci-Hub is a website that currently hosts around 80 million research articles. While many of these have been gained and are hosted illicitly, there is no doubt that it serves a public good by equalising access to scholarly knowledge that was often inaccessible to the majority of people on this planet. Most people will generally […]